Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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